MESA inlists for "Coping with loss: Stability of mass transfer from post-main-sequence donor stars"

Binary model inlists for MESA, as used for the paper Coping with loss: Stability of mass transfer from post-main-sequence donor stars . The inlists provided here are pared-down, minimal working examples of the ones used in the publication. Due to the nature of the calculations, it was often needed to fine-tune inlists for specific systems by hand. For example, AGB models typically required the additional setting of  use_gold_tolerances = .false.

These binary calculations start from a previously-evolved single star model for the donor stars. These can be found in the compressed folder titled "sstar_models_CWL.tar.xz". Please note that several parameters in the inlists will need to be adjusted accordingly, such as the configuration (initial orbit; mass ratio) of the binaries.

NOTE: to ensure that the mass-transfer calculation is fully conservative, add the following line to the binary_controls namelist in the inlist_project file:

use_radiation_corrected_transfer_rate = .false.

Further advice, code and/or files are available upon reasonable request to the authors (contact: Karel Temmink).